Rajeshwari Chatterjee- First Woman Scientist to pioneer the Field of Microwave Engineering and Antennae Engineering in India

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New Delhi, January 19, 2018: Rajeshwari Chatterjee (24th January 1922 – 3 September 2010) was an Indian scientist and academician. She was the first woman engineer from Karnataka and also the first woman faculty member at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore who later become Professor and Chair of the Department of Electrical Communication Engineering. Her pioneering research was related to Microwave Engineering and Antennae and she produced high quality research which resulted in several papers and books. She received the Mountbatten Prize, J C Bose Memorial Prize, RamLal Wadhwa Prize for her outstanding work.

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